Topic: Describing Your Organization

Throughout most of this course, you will practice applying the seven steps of organization design analysis to your own organization or one of the top 100 companies of your choice — first in your Discussion Boards and then in your unit journals. The same chosen company should be used throughout the discussions and journals. Then in the assignments, you will apply these same steps to a provided scenario organization.

Instructions: Please choose either your own organization or one of the top 100 companies that you will use in this discussion.

Based on your reading in Chapter 1 (Burton et al., 2021), respond to the topics below.

Overview: Top-level leaders perform organizational diagnoses using a top-down holistic approach to achieve and sustain organizational excellence. There are many approaches to use in conducting an organizational diagnosis. This course will focus on conducting an organizational diagnosis using the multi-contingency model and information process approach diagnosis (Burton et al., 2021). The multi-contingency model and information process organizational diagnosis begins by focusing on the organization’s scope and goals. In this discussion, address the topics using your selected organization, which can be your organization or another organization of your choosing.

Describe the selected organization that Burton et al. (2021) refer to as the “unit of analysis.”Discuss the selected organization’s scope.Explain your organization’s goal dimensions and associated prototype using the provided graph in the Chapter 1 diagnostic questions section (Burton et al., 2021).

Reference

Burton, R. M., Obel, B., & Døjbak Håkonsson, D. (2021). Organizational design: A step-by-step approach (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press.